Joshua D. Baird
BIOGRAPHY
Joshua David Baird (1979- ) has long been intrigued by the creative process. Some of his earliest memories include watching his father build an easel from scratch and paint a portrait of his mother. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah; Josh’s early years were influenced by sculptors, painters, musicians, photographers and the distinctive Utah landscape. While visiting family members at a young age, Josh remembers gazing out over Cedar Breaks; perhaps his first encounter with the awe-inspiring colors, curious geologic formations and spacious vistas of the Colorado Plateau.
Drawing and painting have always been Josh's primary means of communicating his interests. He began exploring landscape as a subject after noticing a variety of Albert Bierstadt prints while volunteering at a rest home.
Since then, Josh has become a lifelong student of the greatest American landscape painters from Thomas Moran to Richard Diebenkorn; and Southwestern landscape painters from Maynard Dixon to V. Douglas Snow. Josh admires these artists for their sensitivity to the essence of the landscape. They help us see more than we normally see, and enable us to feel as they feel. Josh's intentions are to paint at this level of expression: where the complexities of nature are translated into simple, visual poetry.
He studied art at Brigham Young University and Utah State University. He received both a Bachelor of Arts in drawing and painting, and a Master of Arts in art education from Southern Oregon University.
Josh's preferred medium is oil, and the primary subject found in his artwork is the landscape of the Southwestern United States. That being said; Josh is continually experimenting with new subjects and media, and constantly exploring the full continuum of pictorial representation and abstraction.
He has won many awards at various exhibitions and plein aire painting events which include three 1st places at Plein Air Paradise in Midway, Utah. And yet he has also "hung" 5 different solo exhibitions of abstract landscapes. His paintings are part of numerous collections including the Salt Lake County Art Collection and the Springville Art Museum.
Josh currently resides in Kanab, Utah where he spends his time playing bluegrass music, painting the surrounding landscapes and sculpting the minds of America's future as the local high school art teacher.
Josh's artwork is currently represented by David Ericson Fine Art in Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information: www.davidericsonfineart.com or www.joshuabaird.com.
Joshua D. Baird
CURRICULUM VITAE
BORN
1979, Salt Lake City, Utah
WEBSITE
joshuabaird.com
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
David Ericson Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Rocking V Rafters Gallery, Kanab, UT
EDUCATION
2006 MA, Art Education, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
2004 BA, Painting & Drawing, Magna Cum Laude, Southern Oregon
University, Ashland, OR
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Colorado Plateau Studies II, Healing Arts Artspace, Kanab, UT
Colorado Plateau Studies I, The Village Artspace, Kanab, UT
2009 Recent Field Studies in Oil, The Village Artspace, Kanab, UT
2005 Featured Artist, Rogue Gallery and Art Center, Medford, OR
Spill, SOU Center for the Visual Arts, Retzlaff Gallery, Ashland, OR
Impressions of Land, SOU Hannon Library Art Gallery, Ashland, OR
2004 Earth Portraits, Art Chairs Gallery, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Western Legends, Kanab, UT
2007 Juniper Art Group Show, Juniper Art Gallery, Kanab, UT
2004 Rogue Gallery, Medford, OR
Student Art Show, SOU, Ashland, OR
2002 Undergraduate Student Art Show, Utah State University, Logan, UT
1997 College Board Studio Art Show, Princeton, NJ
1996 Springville Museum, All-State H. S. Art Show, Springville, UT
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2007 Religious & Spiritual Art, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
2006 LDS Museum of History and Art, 7th International Art Competition, Salt Lake City, UT
2003 Take a Walk along the Rogue, Rogue River Bridge, Grants Pass, OR
2002 Undergraduate Art Show, Utah State University, Logan, UT
1997 College Board Studio Art Show, Princeton, NJ
LDS Museum of History and Art, 5th International Art Competition, Salt Lake City, UT
1996 Springville Museum, All-State H. S. Art Show, Springville, UT
AWARDS, HONORS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2009 1st Place Main Street Paintout, Plein Air Paradise, Midway, UT
2009 Honorable Mention, Plein Air Paradise, Midway, UT
2009 1st Place, Plein Air Paradise, Midway, UT
2007 1st Place, Juniper Art Group Show, Juniper Gallery, Kanab, UT
2006 Award of Merit, Everett Reuss Days, Escalante, UT
2005 Featured Artist at the Rogue Gallery, Medford, OR
Davis and Cline Exhibition Nominee, Ashland, OR
1997 Talent Award Scholarship, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Full Tuition Scholarship Waiver, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Winner, Advanced Placement Art Poster Contest, Princeton, NJ
1st Place, Pottery, Granite District Art Show, Salt Lake City, UT
Best of Show, Granite District Art Show, Salt Lake City, UT
Sterling Scholar, Technology Ed & Graphic Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
1996 Principal’s Purchase Award, Olympus Art Show, Salt Lake City, UT
2nd Place, Springville, H.S. All-State Art Show, Springville, UT
1995-96 Member of the National Art Honors Society, Salt Lake City, UT
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007-2012 Kanab High School, Kanab, UT/Valley High School, Orderville, UT. Basic Design/Commercial Art/Digital Photography/3-d Animation/Industrial Design/New Media Instructor
2007-2011 Kanab Middle School, Kanab, UT. Art Foundations Instructor
2010 Truth, Virtue, and Beauty, Education Week, Kanab, UT. Presenter
2008 Desert Art Emporium Workshop Series, Kanab, UT. Landscape Painting Workshop Instructor
2007-2008 Art for Animals Artist Retreat, Best Friends, Kanab, UT. Art Instructor/Presenter/Planner
2006 South High School, Medford, OR. Art/Ceramics Instructor.
2005 Hedrick Middle School, Medford, OR. Art Instructor.
2005 Central Point High School, Central Point, OR. Visiting Artist
PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
Salt Lake County Art Collection, UT
Historical Arts and Castings, South Jordan, UT
David Ericson Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Gaiacore, Salt Lake City, UT
Olympus High School, Salt Lake City, UT